Trudy Keay

Gertrude (Please! Call me Trudy!) Jean Keay was born in Paterson May15th 1932 to Walter Benjamin Harrison and Willemina Van Harken and lived in Paterson, Mexico City, Clifton, Wayne and Sarasota before passing away at age 92 on September 16, 2024 in Sarasota Florida.

After graduating from Clifton High School in 1950, she met and married Alfred Morgan Keay from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, to whom she was married 60 years, raising their four children Laura, David, Daniel and James in Packanack Lake.  Trudy Keay really loved Packanack Lake!

What a great time to be young and what a great place to be young in:  Packanack Lake 1955-2012.  No better place to raise a family and be with a large and fun-loving group of other couples living La Bella Vita. Okay maybe it's all through rose-colored glasses, but Trudy REALLY loved Packanack Lake and the great group of friends she had there - Loved the community; the activities; the friendships.  You couldn't miss her trademark' smile, whether it was returning a serve from Joyce on the tennis courts, setting up Alice for a big spike on the volleyball court, or working with Jeff and the other Players putting on a show at the Clubhouse.

Besides keeping physically fit with all those sports and activities, Trudy was also exercising her mind as a bookkeeper, credit manager, records manager and sales manager for various local companies, along with keeping active in her bridge club. She did not neglect her spiritual health being a woman of enduring faith, which certainly was guided to a significant degree by her beloved aunt Marion Van Harken who may still be remembered by those in the New Jersey religious community as a woman of great piety.

She is survived by the aforementioned four children, her daughters-in-law (Lisa and Norma), her son-in-law (Ralph Sonntag), five grandchildren (Britney, Steven, Thomas, Harrison, Vanessa), one great-grandchild (Rafael) and her sister Barbara Harrison, who miss her dearly.

Requiescat in pace Trudy Keay